Historically, especially in late 18th-and early 19th-century Britain, a dandy, who was self-made, often strove to imitate an aristocratic lifestyle despite coming from a middle-class background.

On the one hand, the novel is the fictional biography of Martha Cochrane, a clever and ambitious Englishwoman with a rural lower middle-class background who, after graduating from university, attempts to climb the ladder of success within corporate Britain.

Carr also sees, as background motives, the British hostility to slavery, and a consequent wish to disentangle Britain from the United States.

There are millions of people around the world who can trace their family background to Clare ; these are mostly present in North America, Great Britain, Australia, South Africa, Argentina and New Zealand.

The rest of the novel describes the complex and troubled relation between Charley and Nancy, as it unfolds against the background of a war-torn Britain.

For broader historical background see Parliament of England, Parliament of Great Britain, Parliament of the United Kingdom.

In the top third of the shield, against a red background, is a gold lion passant guardant ( walking with the further forepaw raised and the body seen from the side ), representing Britain.

This type of industrial melanism has only affected such moths as obtain protection from insect-eating birds by resting on trees where they are concealed by an accurate resemblance to their background ( over 100 species of moth in Britain with melanic forms were known by 1980 ).

In the 1950s, W. Grey Walter, an English scientist with a background in neurological research, built a pair of vacuum tube-based robots that were exhibited at the 1951 Festival of Britain, and which have simple but effective behavior-based control systems.

* The primary tabby pattern gene, Mc / mc, sets the basic pattern of stripes that underlies the coat: the basic wild-type tabby gene, Mc, produces what is called a mackerel striped tabby ( stripes look like thin fishbones and may break up into bars or spots ); while a recessive mutant, mc, produces a blotched or classic tabby pattern ( broad bands, whorls, and spirals of dark color on pale background usually with bulls-eye or oyster pattern on flank ), common in Iran, Great Britain and in lands that were once part of the British Empire and Persian Empire.

'" After several years of searching, he eventually tracked the car down by the name of the garage in the background of a photograph of the car, purchased it sight unseen for $ 1, 500, and had it shipped to Britain for another $ 2, 000.

With this background, philosophical radicalism was suspect in Britain, and aspects of the Cyclopædia were thought to be distinctly subversive and attracted the hostility of the Loyalist press.

" Naylor finds that " Hankey did not altogether grasp the virulence of fascism ... except as a military threat to Britain ; nor did he ever quite comprehend the changing face of domestic politics which Labour's emergence as a party of government entailed .... In these shortcomings Hankey was typical of his generation and background ; that his responsibility was greater lay in the fact that he was better informed than nearly any of his contemporaries.

* For the historical background see ' Britain's Contribution to the Development of Rugby Football in Japan 1874-1998 ' by Alison Nish, Chapter 27, Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits, Volume III, Japan Library, 1999 ISBN 1-873410-89-1

The events took place against the background of a clash between the Conservative government of Edward Heath and the trade union movement, involving the first national miners ’ strike in Britain since 1926, with mass picketing, and clashes between police and workers.

And whilst the Diocese of Sourozh was numerically far smaller than the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain ( the local British Diocese of the Ecumenical Patriarchate ), Metropolitan Anthony considered the Diocese of Sourozh to be ' the Orthodox Church in Britain ' simpliciter, on the grounds that it was open to all and not only to those of a particular ethnic background ( as he took the Diocese of Thyateira to be ).

Rumors of a conspiracy arose against a background of economic competition between poor whites and slaves ; a severe winter ; war between Britain and Spain, with heightened anti-Catholic and anti-Spanish feelings ; and recent slave revolts in South Carolina and the Caribbean.

Her background is in equal opportunities in Britain, and before that, land reform and development in Iran, where she grew up, and journalism in both countries.

Upper background are the viaducts carrying the M2 motorway ( Great Britain ) | M2 motorway and behind that the High Speed 1 rail line.

A notable person of Irish Catholic background in Great Britain who had unionist political opinions was the author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Some stories reveal Palamedes ' background: his father was a king of Babylon who is sent to Rome where he saves the life of the Emperor ; he then travels to Britain where he rescues and befriends King Pellinore.

The senior partner in the firm was William F. Howe ( 1828-September 2, 1902 ), a corpulent UK-born and later naturalized American trial lawyer who had served 18 months in jail in Britain for false representation, and who was strongly suspected of possessing a more extensive criminal background.

toured Britain following Tintin's exact footsteps, using various locations to produce a new series of background drawings.

Although his grandson, Louis Pasteur Vallery-Radot, wrote that Pasteur had only kept from his Catholic background a spiritualism without religious practice, Catholic observers often said Louis Pasteur remained throughout his whole life an ardent Christian, and his son-in-law, in perhaps the most complete biography of Louis Pasteur, writes:

Thus, Peter Wimsey remained forever fixed on the background of inter-war England, and the books are nowadays often read for their evocation of that period as much as for the intrinsic detective mysteries.

Though the stratification of food services in Beijing was no longer effected by imperial laws, the structure more or less remained despite continuous weakening due to the financial background of the local clientele.

Acting as Stein's confidante, lover, cook, secretary, muse, editor, critic, and general organizer, Toklas remained a background figure, chiefly living in the shadow of Stein, until Stein published her memoirs in 1933 under the teasing title The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.

Humanity has lost much of its technological background, due partly to an exodus by much of the species, and partly to the fact that those who remained ( or at least their rulers ) are fighting against more advanced technology such as Artificial Intelligence.

When Romanos IV was defeated and captured by Alp Arslan of the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Manzikert in August 1071, Michael VII remained in the background, while the initiative was taken by his uncle John Doukas and his tutor Michael Psellos.

Hazes had mixed feelings about the film, but most viewers saw a man who had remained true to his humble background and whose raw emotional songs were genuinely felt.

He was married to a Protestant Christian woman and, despite his Hungarian background, he felt affiliated to German culture, writing in an autobiographical sketch, " When I reached the age of fifteen, I left the Jewish way of life and the study of the Torah ... Judaism remained a mere memory and since then I have always felt as a German and as a German only.

After their parents divorced, the girls supported the family by appearing in Vaudeville, where June's talent shone while Louise remained in the background.

He remained in the background throughout the reign of Gustavus III, whom he constantly opposed, particularly through the clandestine Walhalla-orden which he co-founded in Sveaborg.

However, the overall Brady statute was upheld and state and local law enforcement officials remained free to conduct background checks if they so chose.

Despite their Kurdish background, the sultans remained impartial to both groups.

This ident remained with the station until the end of its existence with some modifications, firstly the jingle was altered to nine notes on a guitar a few years later, and then the background was changed to blue in 1969 with the introduction of colour.

Though the tradition receded into the background of European philosophical thought in these centuries, the term " virtue " remained current during this period, and in fact appears prominently in the tradition of classical republicanism or classical liberalism.

Collins, in spite of coming from a strong republican background, remained loyal to Taoiseach Jack Lynch in his moderate approach to the Northern Ireland situation.

At this point, however, king Władysław, who up to that point had remained in the background and relinquished full leadership to Hunyadi, assumed command and with his bodyguards carried out an all-out attack on the elite troops of the Sultan, the Janissaries.

She remained part of the show's main cast, though at times in the background, until the end of its sixth season.

Squires remained in the background working on a possible return to power.

PiS then formed a minority government with the previously little-known Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz as Prime Minister instead of party leader, Jarosław Kaczyński who remained influential in the background.

The bright yellow background remained into the 21st century, with variations since 2002 turning the arrowhead-like chevrons into the corners of an elongated smile under the brand name.

A ruling by the United States ' Federal Railroad Administration ( FRA ) mandated a change in the target in the early 1930s, necessitating a change in the paint scheme from solid red to a black cross and border on a white background, but remained otherwise unchanged until another FRA ruling that changed the standard to the alternating red light system in use today.

Up until that year Gowon remained strictly a career soldier with no involvement whatsoever in politics, until the tumultuous events of the year suddenly thrust him into a leadership role, when his unusual background as a Northerner who was neither of Hausa or Fulani ancestry nor of the Islamic faith made him a particularly safe choice to lead a nation whose population were seething with ethnic tension.

It was then thrust into the background, and though cultivated by a few, it remained unknown to men of letters until the nineteenth century, when Almeida-Garrett began his literary revival and collected folk poems from the mouths of the peasantry.

Over the last couple of months in Pine Valley, Brooke remained in the background, focusing on raising Jamie and Amanda.

The proportion of academics from a working-class background increased during the Third Reich, but remained minuscule in actual numbers.